Quotes About Illusion

You see, I am good at filling in blanks, at seeing meaning where there may have been none at all. In this way I get very close to the truth. Or closer still to illusion.

By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

La historia cotidiana de nuestro país está escrita así: todo lo que parece que es, no es. Todo lo que debería de ser, tampoco será. Lo que realmente está sucediendo es lo impensable, lo improbable, lo imposible.

all of them coursing toward a place that officially did not exist.

I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")

Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.

When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.

When you see everything you realize nothing means anything.

I know why everyone in a false world would think a boy who spent his whole life doing nothing is God. I just don't know how to give it decent subtitles yet.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark")

And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real

If he bleeds to death on the pavilion floor, will he truly have died? Or will the web-work of mosquito curtains draw up into the heavens, amid thunderous applause, and his comrades lift him by the arms? Will the sick, lame, and the dying walk again, missing limbs restored? Will the dead enter from the wings to take a bow?

Are you aware of this acronym for F.E.A.R: False Evidence Appearing Real.

I have a prescription here for Obecalp for [patient's name], but I can't find it listed anywhere." He said, "Oh. That's placebo spelled backwards.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Expection the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.